Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
December 11, 1866

Killed at St. Ignace

Monday morning Toussaint Sharkey was run over by the cars
at St. Ignace and killed. "August", as he was called by rail-
road men, was a brakeman on the freigt train, and when he made
his run down from Marquette Saturday his wife accompanied him
and spent Sunday at the Foint. She was returning on the train
which killed her husband. It is not known whether his foot
slipped or whether he had a fit and thus fell under the wheels,
as he was subject to fits. He was killed instantly.

Sharkey was about 40 years of age and resided on Rock street
in this city; .. .-